The Ahtna Regional Corporation’s Culture and History resources are a great place to start exploring the area’s people and history.
Here an example of the resources from the site.
As I start working on curating information about the history, including cataloging the material I’ve collected and the new collection of material from the estate of John Killoran, I’m pondering how to organize the material and what its ultimate destination will be.
After meeting with the Cordova Museum and Historical Society, I’m inclined to see the materials eventually move there. Still, I’m open to suggestions, as well as cataloging advice to make it easier for others to access and perhaps manage the materials. I’ve started a spreadsheet I’ll eventually share here. I am considering organizing the history into Pre-Western Contact (<1700), Contact to US acquisition of Russian interests, US presence to statehood with a potential seperate section for the railroad years, statehood to present, and the paths ahead.
However I realize that there might be a different way to think about the historial eras from a native and tribal perspective rather than a western linear timeline.
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